Engineering Lead, marta
3 days a week in office
Live-in care platform
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Live-in care platform
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
3 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To reduce the burden on families and caregivers and ensure transparency, fairness and human interaction home care.
Role
Who you are
- 8-12 years of professional experience in software engineering, ideally with previous responsibility for leading or mentoring technical teams (i.e. Engineering Manager, Head of Engineering or similar)
- Proven ability to own complex codebases and ship high-quality products from concept to production
- Strong skills in TypeScript, Node.js, and React
- Solid understanding of backend technologies: Express.js, TypeORM, and PostgreSQL; familiarity with dependency injection (TypeDI)
- Hands-on experience with AWS (ECS, S3, SNS/SQS, etc.), Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform for infrastructure-as-code and scalable microservice deployment
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, CircleCI)
- Nice-to-have: Experience with monitoring/observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana) for microservices
- A pragmatic mindset: you value technical simplicity, fast iteration, and business impact over theoretical perfection
- Comfortable working in a lean, fast-moving setup with high ownership and minimal hierarchy
- Skilled at balancing hands-on development with guiding engineering direction and enabling others to do their best work
- Excellent communicator in English, able to connect clearly with both engineers and non-technical stakeholders
- 8-12 years in software engineering, with at least 2–3 years leading or mentoring technical teams
- Fluent in English
What the job involves
- You are the technical owner of marta’s platform. You lead by guiding architectural decisions, ensuring the team delivers high-quality features fast and reliably, and by contributing to the production of code yourself
- Together with the Product Lead, you will form the core of marta’s product & engineering leadership — translating business problems into scalable, maintainable, and tested software
- Hands-On Engineering & Architecture
- Own marta’s architecture end-to-end: keep the system simple, stable, and scalable across 9 microservices and 5+ apps
- Drive pragmatic improvements (e.g. consolidation into a monorepo, shared library refactoring, dependency documentation)
- Ensure test discipline and CI/CD standards: no merges without coverage, no undefined tickets entering sprints
- Monitor system performance, ensure load-testing, and maintain a strong operational foundation
- Code daily — design, implement, and review core features across backend and frontend
- Delivery & Team Execution
- Partner closely with Product to define sprint goals, ensure clarity, and deliver predictably
- Review pull requests, maintain technical documentation, and ensure consistent code quality across the team
- Balance speed and quality — make trade-offs explicit and data-driven
- Track key engineering KPIs (bug rate, rework %, automation coverage) and drive continuous improvement
- Leadership by Doing
- Lead a small team of full-stack and product engineers by example — mentor through code, not hierarchy
- Provide technical guidance, unblock teammates, and promote ownership in specific system areas (invoicing, matching, care onboarding, etc.)
- Build psychological safety and trust in a lean engineering culture: focus, clarity, and accountability
- Work directly with founders to align tech decisions with business goals
- Automation & AI Integration
- Collaborate with Product to embed agentic and AI-powered capabilities — both in our workflow (for faster delivery) and within the product (to automate operational tasks)
- Use AI to accelerate testing, documentation, and rapid prototyping
- Continuously evaluate modern tooling that increases development speed without compromising maintainability
- Security, Reliability & Compliance
- Own system security and compliance — ensuring audit readiness and GDPR alignment
- Close operational gaps and formalize disaster recovery procedures
- Foster a culture of reliability: proactive monitoring, incident documentation, and zero tolerance for untested hotfixes
Our take
Berlin-based Marta is a live-in care platform that connects families with caregivers. The company became active in over four countries soon after its founding and now boasts over 13,000 families using its services.
Its founders conceived the concept following their experience in finding 24 hour care for their grandparents. The market was complicated and overpriced, and the available agencies took most of the caregiver's salary. Marta exists to change this.
Following seed funding led by Capnamic, the company has invested capital into expanding its core teams in Germany, Poland, Romania and Lithuania whilst scaling up business processes. The hole in the market it is filling coupled with its already impressive growth puts Marta on an exciting trajectory moving forwards.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
38% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Aug 2022
$7.7m
SEED
Total funding: $7.7m
Company HQ
Mitte, Berlin, Germany
Leadership
Jan Markus Hoffman
(Co-Founder)Previously founded Panama Open Air Festival and RheinEvents, acting as Managing Director for both.
Philipp Buhr
(Co-Founder)Previously co-founded BBH Ventures and served as Management Associate to the CEO for Bertelsmann SE & Co.
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